Illustration: Sarah John

Threats that silence

Amid arrests, harassment and violence, Sophie Neiman reflects on the plight of journalists in Uganda.

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NI 551 - Election year - September, 2024
Illustration: Sarah John

Uprooted

From Uganda to Mozambique, Sophie Neiman follows the trail of destruction of oil and gas.

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NI 550 - Abortion - July, 2024
New slaves

New slaves

Report on cyberscam compounds in Myanmar, by Kayleigh Long.

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NI 550 - Abortion - July, 2024
Illustration: Sarah John

A moment of fear

An unsettling encounter with a thief shakes Sophie Neiman’s sense of safety.

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NI 549 - Debt: which way out? - May, 2024
Illustration: Sarah John

In the balance

Sophie Neiman reports from a stifling court in Kampala, where activists are waging a bitter legal battle to overturn Uganda’s harsh anti-gay law.

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NI 548 - South Africa 30 years later - March, 2024
Illustration: Emma Peer

Seriously?

Political petulance in Uganda, writes Amy Hall.

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NI 547 - Climate capitalism - January, 2024
from left to right: Jerome Kendricks Okiror, Quin Karala, Joan Amek, Ashley Karungi, Eunice Maltego pose for a photo on 4 April 2023 in in Kampala. Amek is an LGBTQI+ rights activist and executive director of Rella Women’s Empowerment Program, Uganda.Photo: Abubaker Lubowa/Reuters

‘They want to erase us’

After the government introduced one of the harshest anti-gay laws in the world, LGBTQI+ Ugandans have been living in an increased climate of fear. Amid preparations for a landmark case challenging the law, Sophie Neiman speaks to the people who are promoting the legislation, and the human rights activists putting everything on the line to get it overturned.

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NI 547 - Climate capitalism - January, 2024
Thomas Kwoyelo is escorted by Ugandan army officers upon arrival at Entebbe air force base on 4 March 2009.Photo: James Akena/Reuters/Alamy

The long wait of Thomas Kwoyelo

A former child soldier in the ferocious Lord’s Resistance Army has been on trial for war crimes in Uganda for 13 years. Meanwhile thousands of other fighters have been welcomed home under amnesty legislation. Sophie Neiman visits Gulu to find out how this contentious case is failing the LRA’s victims.

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NI 541 - The cost of living crisis - January, 2023
Photo: Esther Ruth Mbabazi

Fighting the fossils

Big Oil is throwing money at new fossil fuel infrastructure like there’s no tomorrow. New pipelines, refineries, wells and rigs are being built across all continents. But everywhere the industry goes, it meets resistance. Here are four profiles of groups saying enough is enough. Words by Nick Dowson.

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NI 537 - How we stop big oil - May, 2022
Photo: Stefan Rousseau/PA images/Alamy

Hall of Infamy: Yoweri Museveni

Ugandan autocrat Yoweri Museveni digs his heels in yet again.

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NI 531 - Vaccine equality - May, 2021
Betty Bigombe with the late General Robert Aronda Nyakairima, a Ugandan military commander who led the fight against Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army.Photo: Uganda People's Defense Forces

The Interview: Betty Bigombe

The intrepid Betty Bigombe talks about her immersive way of negotiating peace with the ultra-violent Lord’s Resistance Army. 

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NI 529 - The biodiversity emergency - January, 2021
Robert Kyagulanyi, also known as the popstar Bobi Wine, speaks during a rally in Hoima in the west of Uganda.Photo: OPA Images/SIPA USA/PA Images

‘Let them own their country’

‘Let them think for themselves’, says the ‘ghetto president’, Bobi Wine.

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NI 529 - The biodiversity emergency - January, 2021
What's in a name

What's in a name

Update from Uganda by Liam Taylor.

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NI 527 - Covid-19 lessons from the pandemic - September, 2020
Passing the time at an orphanage outside Kampala, Uganda.Photo: ZUMA Press / Alamy

Orphans in limbo

With the Ugandan government announcing it may close down hundreds of illegal orphanages, it is not clear what will happen to the children living in them.

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NI 515 - Making peace in a world at war - September, 2018
The trauma of history

The trauma of history

Sally Hayden writes about the Lukodi massacre museum.

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NI 513 - A better media is possible - June, 2018
Education by e-book? A teacher and her class at low-cost private school  Bridge in Mpigi, Uganda.Photo: Jon Rosenthal/Alamy

Between a shark and the deep sea

Can a US chain of profit-making schools really help the poor? Patience Akumu reports on the impact of Bridge academies in Uganda.

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NI 505 - Bad Education - September, 2017
Pride under pressure in Uganda

Pride under pressure in Uganda

The Ugandan LGBT community is under shock after police raided the Ugandan Pride Week, reports Jess Worth.

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NI 496 - World Fiction Special - Exquisite short stories - October, 2016
Congolese refugees bound for Uganda.Photo: James Akena/Reuters

Why don’t you move to Uganda?

Patience Akumu explains that some African countries host large numbers of refugees.

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NI 489 - Humanity adrift: why refugees deserve better - January, 2016
Not doing the Lord’s work: Pastor Martin Ssempa (wearing spectacles) blesses politician David Bahati, who introduced Uganda’s notorious Anti-Homosexuality Bill as a Private Member’s Bill in 2009. The ceremony took place at an anti-gay church service at the Christianity Focus Centre in Kampala’s biggest slum, Kisenyi. Photo: Benedicte Desrus/Alamy

The anti-gay gospel

How foreign funds amplify hate in Uganda, by Patience Akumu.

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NI 483 - Fundamentalism - Power, politics and persuasion - June, 2015

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Election year September, 2024
Abortion July, 2024
Abortion July, 2024
Debt: which way out? May, 2024
South Africa 30 years later March, 2024
Climate capitalism January, 2024
Climate capitalism January, 2024
The cost of living crisis January, 2023
How we stop big oil May, 2022
Vaccine equality May, 2021
The biodiversity emergency January, 2021
The biodiversity emergency January, 2021
Covid-19 lessons from the pandemic September, 2020
Making peace in a world at war September, 2018
A better media is possible June, 2018
Bad Education September, 2017
World Fiction Special - Exquisite short stories October, 2016
Trade unions - rebuild, renew, resist September, 2016
Humanity adrift: why refugees deserve better January, 2016
Fundamentalism - Power, politics and persuasion June, 2015
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